Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker has breached the Argentinian government’s IT network and stolen ID card details for the country’s entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles. The hack, which took place last month, targeted RENAPER, which stands for Registro Nacional de las Personas, translated as National Registry of Persons. Read more on…
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Suspected Chinese hackers behind attacks on ten Israeli hospitals
Bill Toulas reports: A joint announcement from the Ministry of Health and the National Cyber Directorate in Israel describes a spike in ransomware attacks over the weekend that targeted the systems of nine health institutes in the country. In the joint announcement, the Israeli government states that the attempts resulted in no damage to the hospitals…
Acer under fire: Now hackers claim to have hit Acer Taiwan, too
DESORDEN threat actors are still going after Acer, it seems. In addition to their recent revelation that they exfiltrated 60 GB of data from Acer India — a breach that Acer confirmed — they have alerted DataBreaches.net that they have also successfully attacked Acer in Taiwan. In a statement to DataBreaches.net, the threat actors write:…
Quebec’s Bill 64 Introduces Unique Cyber Incident Reporting Obligations
Charles S. Morgan, Ellen Yifan Chen, and Philippe April of McCarthy Tétrault LLP write: The Act to Modernize Legislative Provisions respecting the Protection of Personal Information (“Bill 64” or the “Bill”)[1] received royal assent on September 22, 2021, introducing new obligations for private sector businesses in Québec phased over the course of three years. […] it is important…
UK: Schools email marketing company told us to go away when we told them of exposed database creds, say infoseccers
Gareth Corfield reports: An email marketing company claiming to hold details on a million UK teachers and school admin personnel was potentially exposing those to the public internet thanks to a misconfigured error page on its website. Not only that, but the Schools Marketing Company (SMC) seemingly dismissed the findings of the infosec company which…
“Shoot the Messenger,” Friday edition: Homewood Health resorts to threats and a court order?
In July of this year, CTV News in Canada and DataBreaches.net reported on a breach involving Homewood Health in Canada. Both CTV and this site had become aware of the breach when data allegedly from Homewood showed up on a leak site called Marketo. Marketo claimed to have almost 300 GB of Homewood’s data for…